Talking Tolkien Pt.1: Words for Wounds

The Pastoral Power of The Lord of the Rings

One of my current reading projects is a complete revisit of JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Having read the novels right through in the past, and revisited key sections of them many times, I decided that now felt like a good time to do a truly deep dive back into Middle Earth, absorbing the lore, probing the landscapes, and listening to Tolkien’s v…